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Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica: 33 Reprint 2011 Edition
Author(s): Pfeiler
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Publication Date: 20 Aug. 2007
- Edition: Reprint 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110195593
- ISBN-13: 9783110195590
Book Description
This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch’ol, Tzeltal, K’iche’, and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K’anjob’al, K’iche’, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
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About the Author
Barbara Pfeiler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico.
